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alkahest

v0.3.0 Growing

Fantastic serialization library with zero-overhead serialization and zero-copy deserialization

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 2+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
33.5K
Dependents
20
Releases
16
Size
41KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

197 downloads in the last 30 days (7/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 107 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 4+ years old, alkahest hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 40KB, alkahest is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include edict, evoke, evoke-core. When high-quality crates choose alkahest, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 18/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 5/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 5/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
8/day avg-59%
051015202512/301/172/42/223/123/29

Top Dependents

Most downloaded crates that depend on alkahest

Version Adoption

v0.3.0
58%
v0.1.5
20%
v0.2.0
7%
v0.1.4
7%
v0.1.3
7%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["alloc", "fixed32", "inline-more"]

stdalloc*derivefixed8fixed16fixed32*fixed64bincodedinline-more*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
20
crates depend on alkahest